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Percutaneous closure of a large iatrogenic fistula between the inferior vena cava and the pulmonary vein in a child
Author(s) -
Saliba Zakhia,
ElRassi Issam,
Smayra Tarek
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/ccd.22949
Subject(s) - medicine , percutaneous , surgery , inferior vena cava , fistula , diaphragmatic hernia , complication , diaphragmatic breathing , radiology , hernia , alternative medicine , pathology
We hereby describe a complex late postoperative veno‐venous fistula in a child, successfully treated by an interventional percutaneous procedure. It is a unique complication of diaphragmatic hernia surgery that has never been reported before: a late postoperative iatrogenic fistula, between the inferior vena cava and the right lower pulmonary vein, discovered in a 6‐year‐old boy operated at the age of 4 months for a right diaphragmatic hernia. The right to left shunt was completely and uneventfully suppressed by a percutaneous procedure separating the systemic venous return from the pulmonary venous return with an Amplatzer Vascular Plug II. © 2011 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.